Flow annealed importance sampling bootstrap

LI Midgley, V Stimper, GNC Simm, B Schölkopf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Normalizing flows are tractable density models that can approximate complicated target
distributions, eg Boltzmann distributions of physical systems. However, current methods for …

Deep Generative Models, Synthetic Tabular Data, and Differential Privacy: An Overview and Synthesis

C Hassan, R Salomone, K Mengersen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15424, 2023 - arxiv.org
This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic
data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically …

Learning to Transform for Generalizable Instance-wise Invariance

U Singhal, C Esteves, A Makadia… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Computer vision research has long aimed to build systems that are robust to transformations
found in natural data. Traditionally, this is done using data augmentation or hard-coding …

Minimizing Convex Functionals over Space of Probability Measures via KL Divergence Gradient Flow

R Yao, L Huang, Y Yang - International Conference on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Motivated by the computation of the non-parametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE)
and the Bayesian posterior in statistics, this paper explores the problem of convex …

Some challenges of calibrating differentiable agent-based models

A Quera-Bofarull, J Dyer, A Calinescu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Agent-based models (ABMs) are a promising approach to modelling and reasoning about
complex systems, yet their application in practice is impeded by their complexity, discrete …

Normalizing Flows on the Product Space of SO (3) Manifolds for Probabilistic Human Pose Modeling

O Dünkel, T Salzmann, F Pfaff - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Normalizing flows have proven their efficacy for density estimation in Euclidean space but
their application to rotational representations crucial in various domains such as robotics or …

Improved multifidelity Monte Carlo estimators based on normalizing flows and dimensionality reduction techniques

A Zanoni, G Geraci, M Salvador, K Menon… - Computer Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the problem of multifidelity uncertainty propagation for computationally expensive
models. In particular, we consider the general setting where the high-fidelity and low-fidelity …

Squared neural families: a new class of tractable density models

R Tsuchida, CS Ong… - Advances in neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Flexible models for probability distributions are an essential ingredient in many machine
learning tasks. We develop and investigate a new class of probability distributions, which we …

One-line-of-code data mollification improves optimization of likelihood-based generative models

BH Tran, G Franzese, P Michiardi… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Generative Models (GMs) have attracted considerable attention due to their
tremendous success in various domains, such as computer vision where they are capable to …

InvertibleNetworks. jl: A Julia package for scalable normalizing flows

R Orozco, P Witte, M Louboutin, A Siahkoohi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
InvertibleNetworks. jl is a Julia package designed for the scalable implementation of
normalizing flows, a method for density estimation and sampling in high-dimensional …